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5 book(s) with the same title
Popular Song in the 19th Century
, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 384 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:31 b/w, 26 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503600789.
Summary Many new and exciting kinds of popular song emerged in the 19th century, and the contributors to this volume place the development and reception of these songs in their social and cultural context. The chapters are grouped into four parts. Part I investigates border crossings: an internationally known gondola song, popular songs in the Southern United States, the impact of American music in Germany, and Brazilian music in Europe. Part II concentrates on public and private spaces: the cabarets of Montmartre, salons in Berlin and Prague, popular songs and the church organ, and theatre songs in Portugal and Spain. Part III takes up the subject of social struggle: German protest songs, Hussitism and Czech songs, and Antebellum American popular songs. Part IV is concerned with matters of cultural identity: songs of Flanders, songs of the Russian 'Slavic spirit', urban songs in Greece after the War of Independence (1821), and rural and urban Serbian songs. Taken as a whole, the chapters reveal the importance of understanding different historical and cultural environments when investigating the subject matter, structure and meaning of 19th-century popular song. TABLE OF CONTENTS Derek B. Scott Introduction: The New Popular Songs of the Nineteenth Century Part I: Cultural Transfer Henrike Rost 'La Biondina in Gondoletta': The Transnational Success Story of a Popular Gondola Song Chloe Valenti Between Opera and Popular Song: The Transformation of 'Va pensiero' in Victorian Britain Candace Bailey Opera, Lieder, or Stephen Foster? Popular Song in the Antebellum US South Tobias Fasshauer Wenn das Banjo zittert : Americanism in Popular Songs of the Wilhelmine Era Fl via Camargo Toni The Twenty modinhas for Voice and Piano by Sigismund Neukomm and Joaquim Manoel Gago da C mara: A 'Transatlantic' Partnership Part II: Private and Public Spaces Michela Niccolai Montmartre in Its Songs: Between Caf -concert and Cabaret (c. 1860-1914) Anja Bunzel Popular Song in the (Semi-)Private Domain? Considering the Nineteenth-Century Salon within the Context of Popular Culture Eva-Maria de Oliveira Pinto Popular Songs in the Ecclesiastical Context: Discoveries in European and North American Organ Music of the 19th Century Catarina Ribeiro Braga The Portuguese Chansonnette at the End of the Nineteenth Century: The New Popular Song or a Mini-comic Scene? Mar a Encina Cortizo - Ram n Sobrino Popular Dance Songs in the 19th Century beyond the Spanish Borders: La cachucha and Las habas verdes Part III: Social Struggle David Robb Popular Protest Songs of the German Vorm rz and 1848 Revolution Viktor Velek Master Jan Hus and Hussitism as the Subject of Czech Social Songs in the First Half of the 19th Century Wojciech Bernatowicz He's Gone to Be a Soldier in the Army of the Lord : Politics in the Antebellum American Popular Song Part IV: Cultural Identity Jan Dewilde I Know a Song : Two Popular Flemish Songs about Singing a Song ine Mulvey Dialect Verse and Songwriting during the Irish Cultural Revival (1891-1922) Mirella Di Vita Pesnja e Romans: The Forms of the Russian Art Song at the Beginning of the 19th Century Avra Xepapadakou Popular Song in 19th-Century Greece Marijana Kokanovi? Markovi? Serbian Popular Song in the 19th-Century: Their Cultural and Social Role Abstracts and Biographies Index of Names
A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting. Mediaeval Panel Painting in Tuscany. 12th to 13th century. A Supplement
Boskovits, Miklos: A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting. Mediaeval Panel Painting in Tuscany. 12th to 13th century. A Supplement. Giunti, 2021. 799 pages, fully illustrated in colour. Hardback. 31 x 24cms. The Mediaeval Panel Painting in Tuscany is the catalogue raisonné of twelfth and thirteenth century Tuscan paintings. The project's goal was to draw up a complete index of Italian panel paintings from the origins to the end of the thirteenth century. The book consists of five parts. The first, dedicated to twelfth-century panel paintings, examines the earliest works from Tuscany as a whole since it is not possible to pinpoint variations among local schools in those years. It is only starting from the thirteenth century that Boskovits could begin to trace the developments of figurative language in Tuscany's main cities, from Lucca to Pisa. The book then focuses on thirteenth-century Sienese painting, reconstructing the career of the Master of Tressa, through to the works of Duccio di Buoninsegna up to year 1300, omitting those paintings that by then were in dialogue with Giotto's innovations. The last part is dedicated to paintings from the Arezzo area, focusing largely on the career of Margarito d'Arezzo.
The Mediaeval Panel Painting in Tuscany is the catalogue raisonné of twelfth and thirteenth century Tuscan paintings. The projects goal was to draw up a complete index of Italian panel paintings from the origins to the end of the thirteenth century. The book consists of five parts. The first, dedicated to twelfth-century panel paintings, examines the earliest works from Tuscany as a whole since it is not possible to pinpoint variations among local schools in those years. It is only starting from the thirteenth century that Boskovits could begin to trace the developments of figurative language in Tuscanys main cities, from Lucca to Pisa. The book then focuses on thirteenth-century Sienese painting, reconstructing the career of the Master of Tressa, through to the works of Duccio di Buoninsegna up to year 1300, omitting those paintings that by then were in dialogue with Giottos innovations. The last part is dedicated to paintings from the Arezzo area, focusing largely on the career of Margarito dArezzo. Text in English
Panta Pei Change in Thirteenth-Century Byzantine Architecture, Art, and Material Culture
, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, 449 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:24 b/w, 149 col., 3 maps b/w, 2 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503602684.
Summary The year 1204, when Byzantium was conquered by the participants of the Fourth Crusade, marks a major and violent change on several levels, including politics and the economy, society and religion, as well as art and culture. The once powerful empire experienced both the humiliation of foreign occupation and its political subjugation. After its re-establishment in 1261, Byzantium had become a shrunken state, surrounded by aggressive enemies, while a number of its vital areas, such as Crete and Cyprus, together with the Aegean and Ionian islands, remained under foreign rule. These changes influenced not only the artistic output but the everyday life of the Byzantines as well. New ideas, new preferences, and new techniques are attested in architecture, painting, sculpture, and minor arts, all of which developed a new dynamic. According to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesos (c. 535 - c. 475 B.C.), whose aphorism ????? ???, i.e. everything flows, is highlighted in the title of this collective volume, change is the fundamental essence of the universe. The book aims to provide an up-to-date, well-rounded, and balanced overview of the long thirteenth century, by examining aspects of the artistic and cultural transformations created and developed within the new framework of co-existence among Byzantines, Latins, Slavs, and Ottomans. TABLE OF CONTENTS Notes on Contributors List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Jenny P. Albani and Ioanna Christoforaki PART I. A Capital Exiled, A Capital Regained Chapter 1 Loss, Memory, and Exile: Innovation and Simulation in Laskarid Art and Architecture Naomi Ruth Pitamber Chapter 2 Brickwork and Fa ade: Envisioning the Apse of the Church of Saint John the Baptist at the Lips Monastery Jasmina S. ?iri? PART II Artistic Developments and Interactions in the Christian East Chapter 3 Tradition and Transition on the Slopes of the Pentadaktylos Mountain in Thirteenth-Century Cyprus Nikolas Bakirtzis Chapter 4 Icons of the Virgin Nursing at Sinai and the Question of the Origins of the Madonna dell'Umilt Irene Leontakianakou Chapter 5 An Unknown Frankish Icon of the Mother of God Michele Bacci Chapter 6 Changes and Innovation: Reassessing Thirteenth-Century Byzantine Manuscript Illumination Marina Toumpouri PART III Regional Styles and New Cultural Identities Chapter 7 Architectural Sculpture during the Thirteenth Century: Cultural Interactions Shaping New Regional Identities Catherine Vanderheyde Chapter 8 Artistic Links between Epiros, Prilep, and Berroia in the Late Thirteenth Century: Continuity and Change in Monumental Painting Leonela Fundi? Chapter 9 A Missing Link in the Development of Relief Haloes: The Evidence from Macedonia Nikolaos Siomkos PART IV New Data on Everyday and Luxury Objects Chapter 10 Changing Byzantium: The Thirteenth Century Viewed through Its Pottery: Summary of the Evidence, Main Trends, Thoughts for Future Directions Anastasia G. Yangaki Chapter 11 Slow Paces of Change in Byzantine Material Culture: Dress in the Thirteenth Century Pari Kalamara Chapter 12 New Light on Byzantine Enamels of the Thirteenth Century Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie PART V Envisaging and Visualizing Death Chapter 13 Eloquent Texts, Colourful Images: Visionary Scenes at the Refectory of the Patmos Monastery Konstantia Kefala Chapter 14 Is Everything Dead after Death? Mural Paintings of the Last Judgment and the Eschatological Preoccupations of the Thirteenth Century. Dimitra Kotoula In Conclusion Jenny P. Albani and Ioanna Christoforaki Index of Persons Topographical Index
Ars Habsburgica. New Perspectives on Sixteenth-Century Art
, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, 268 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:45 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503595948.
Summary Starting from a political reality, which is, at the same time, artistic and cultural, the book Ars Hasburgica aims to review the still so common historiographical conception of the Renaissance that conceives this period from a geographically Italocentric, artistically classicist and politically centered the idea of "national" arts and schools. But Renaissance is a more global and complex phenomenon. What this book aims to offer is an idea of the art of that period that considers the role played by the Habsburg dynasty and its various courts in this period, trying to verify whether, by applying other historiographic models, and having the art of the Casa de Austria as a focus, traditional ideas can continue to be maintained well into the twenty-first century. We refer to the so-called "Vasari paradigm", on which art history of the sixteenth century has largely been built over the last centuries. It is also intended to structure concepts about the art of the period not so much around nationalist considerations and identities of the arts, but to raise these issues throughout ideas such as that of the court as a political, artistic and cultural sphere, in the wake of the classical studies by Norbert Elias, Amedeo Quondam or Carlo Ossola. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Ars Habsburgica, or New Perspectives on Sixteenth-Century European Art Fernando Checa and Miguel ngel Zalama Habsburg Politics and Cultures in the Sixteenth Century: the Cosmopolitan Iberian Experience of Empires and Kingdoms Fernando Bouza A Theory of Art for the Habsburg Renaissance Fernando Checa Rethinking Vasari: Art and Arts in the Sixteenth Century Miguel ngel Zalama The Antithesis between the Vasarian Canon and the Habsburg Model of the Arts: Defining National Identity in the Italian Risorgimento Matteo Mancini Luxury and Identity in the Sixteenth-Century Habsburg Courts Jes s F. Pascual Molina Food as a Strategy of Power: the Political Role of Banquets in Prince Philips's Felic simo Viaje (1548-1551) Vanessa Quintanar Cabello His Polis: The Habsburg Naval Epic in the Mediterranean V ctor M nguez Habsburg Mars: The House of Austria and the Artistic Representation of Land Warfare Antonio Gozalbo Nadal Sixteenth-Century Notions on Spolia and Triumph Representation Antonio Urqu zar-Herrera The Armamentarium Heroicum of Archduke Ferdinand of Tyrol Christian Beaufort-Spontin The Habsburgs and Emblematic Literature: a Historiographical Assessment Patricia Andr s Gonz lez Books and Libraries in the Construction of the Habsburg Dynasty's Image during the Sixteenth Century Jos Luis Gonzalo S nchez-Molero Epic and Truth: Writing for the Habsburgs in Sixteenth-Century Spain Mar a Jos Vega Philip II as Rex Pacificus: Belligerence and Pacifism in Epic Versions of the Battle of Saint-Quentin (1557) Lara Vil Notes on the Contributors Index of Names
Futuristic Fiction, Utopia, and Satire in the Age of the Enlightenment. Samuel Madden's 'Memoirs of the Twentieth Century' (1733)
, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 460 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:10 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503606026.
Summary Published anonymously in 1733, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century is one of the earliest futuristic novels known in Anglophone and Euro-American literature. It foregrounds an acceleration of history brought about by an increasing degree of global interconnectedness, and the exclusion of prophetism and astrology as credible ways to know the future. The work of Samuel Madden, an Irish writer and philanthropist of Whig sympathies, it consists of a collection of diplomatic letters composed in the 1990s, which the narrator claims were brought to him from the time to come by a supernatural entity. Through these correspondences, twentieth-century world scenarios are spread out before the reader, in which British naval power rules the waves and international commerce, while the transnational scheming of the Jesuits threatens the independence of weaker European courts. This book - which includes a study followed by an annotated edition of the text - assesses the cultural significance of this literary work, as an apt observatory on how historical time as a cultural construction was shaped, during the eighteenth century, by new forms of transnational circulation of information, and by the dubious space carved out in European culture by seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century debates on the nature of historical knowledge. Through and by means of the Memoirs case study, this volume aims to contribute to a wider cultural history of the future and speculative fiction. The novel's ironic distancing of beliefs considered to be superstitious and absurd - such as divination techniques and occult and magical disciplines - offers an exceptional testimony to the negotiation of the boundaries of verisimilitude and credibility within a religious enlightenment. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Knowledge, Power, and Time in the Age of the Enlightenment Part I. Samuel Madden's Eighteenth-Century Memoirs from the Future I. Where was the Future? II. When was the Future? III. An Irish Whig between Philanthropism and Literature IV. An Eighteenth-Century Twentieth Century V. An (Unreliable) Historian of the Future VI. A 'good genius' and the 'scene of things below' VII. Empirical Science, Global Consciousness, and 'the History of Future Times' VIII. Blurring the Dichotomy between History and Fiction IX. Satirising Past Futures X. 'Publishing' the Letters XI. 'This prodigious society': Anti-Jesuit Satire XII. Whose Credulity, whose Credibility XIII. Bookish Mysteries and an 'alternate George VI' XIV. Concluding Remarks Part II. Memoirs of the Twentieth Century A Note on the Text Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century Notes to the Text Bibliography Index
